Search results for query: Paranoia

...anxiety, depression, OCD, general mood disorder, DD including depersonalization and derealization, and other miscellaneous traits like paranoia. I have gone through periods of minor psychosis. I’ve experienced physical, sexual, mental/emotional abuse as a child and adult. I have come a long...

...a party. I can get a nice buzz or get totally smashed, whatever works that day. One thing no one has mentioned is when things go wrong. Paranoia and PTSD don't go well together. Have a list of paranoia mitigation strategies handy and be aware it can happen with products you have used...

Sorry to hear about this survivor.. I think I do understand.. ☹️.

...it has its purpose sometimes, I just do not act out on it purposefully or try others to disempower me with their "perceived" calmness to my paranoia states. I often focus on the experience rather than the feelings themselves to get a better view of the situation. Little edit never hurt...

...things out of proportion, make things that are completely innocent have a hidden agenda, all the while feeling panic in my whole body. It's paranoia and delusions of the worst and inconceivable. I feel like my brain sees the inconceivable because the inconceivable happened to me. While my...

...you're having? Be careful because none of us on the internet can diagnose you with anything! Best bet is to speak to your doctor and/or get a second opinion. Do you have a therapist? Becuase working through these trust issues might help? That's a lot of paranoia there in terms of a flatshare.

i relate with this type of paranoia as well. the idea that no one could really be interested in me for any reason other than using me. it has taken a long time to come to terms with the fact that very often my paranoia and self-loathing can twist itself around to being harmful to others. there...

I lost the trust in people and learning to trust again is hard.

...safe-but you're still looking for threats). you were being rationally hypervigilent (i'm in my trauma and if i do/say certain things, xyz action will occur.) but in terms of being paranoid-that's a denial of your reality. you were not being paranoid, because paranoia is by definition irrational.

...the effects from it are stil there. Mentally, things are better than they were back then but its still there and it still hurts me everyday. Paranoia, scared so see him in public or the chance he would show up to my house. He used to threaten me and I'm still scared some days that he may...

I realize, trying to look up guidance for how to deal with someone's paranoia of sorts, to deal with unfounded accusations, that the guidance is there is nothing to respond with, because they've made up their mind, and (I) simply haven't done it. They won't give the benefit of the doubt, or...

...around feeling like I needed to “go away” to keep “the madness” at bay. This also came at me full force when I started having horrible paranoia while on pot, after having been a pothead for about ten years before it went dark. I intellectually know that I’m in good shape as well as have...

Going with @grief here. He might have remorse but it shouldn't be your job. What's done is done. I have weird paranoias too. I don't think people are even capable of seeing me for what I am. So I remain in that sort of ghost space with my world of thoughts. They can touch me if they want. It's...

I guess in its pure sense, paranoia is about making it all about you with a strong sense of persecution, sometimes actioned by a sense of self importance. While in "paranoid", it's more of a suspicion based on distrust. ?

In my honest opinion, you've been quite stressed recently and stress can induce paranoia. Also your meds have been variable. This might also be an indication of your up and down moods. 😊

...both in terms of what happened but also my reaction to the situation, but I can already tell this is gonna keep me up tonight, and add extra paranoia to my daily life, as if I needed anymore of that. Like, its such a small thing. But its making me feel sick, and while typing this out has...

You can have PTSD and be high functioning. I have flashbacks, rumination, intrusive thoughts, cognitive distortions due to fear and paranoia. I don't have fear of the explicit flashbacks of the particular trauma of one of my attacks but of the symptoms it caused. I have received absolutely zero...

I recommend making a list of your paranoid type symptoms and then giving it to your psychiatrist. I did this when I feared having paranoid personality disorder. He told me no, it’s just trauma that I’m dealing with. Being medicated has helped with the paranoia.

He's always done this. But this provides a good example of where I have thought I was having paranoia when it really was just me not wanting to feel judged. I thought better of sharing any of this but I chose to, knowing that there was this possibility. You made a lot of assumptions, here...

...but again, I do not want to fly off with this but it seems your intuitions are not wrong but perhaps the best you can do is just ask for clarification in such that you are confused about this - and maybe all my writing is grit paranoia. sorry about some of the spelling and sentence structures.

...by having my leaders leak my previous medical information to those that I work with. I deal with daily symptoms such as nightmares, paranoia, anxiety, severe depression, ANGER, IRRITATABILITY, lack of motivation, lack of ability to concentrate or focus, feeling of wanting to isolate myself...

Thanks! They have me back on more Lithium than I've been on in several months, so I have my fingers crossed. 😺

Hi @AnD, unfortunately I think that our traumas and abuse results in us feeling fear which induces paranoia. Which is horrible to experience. When we feel like this I have to tell myself that these feelings and thoughts are cognitive distortions.

...may kick in a little and I become less trustful. So I am currently working with my Therapist to err on the side of caution not that of paranoia or distrust. Incremental steps within connections build a foundation of shared experiences. As well, certain people, members, ect strike that chord...

...world whatever that is that only you have access to yourself rather than forcing suppression or ignoring which may be creating the fear/paranoia - as it appears to me from the distance? Is it possible to ask yourself, what you do need REALLY need now that may soothe you and hold listen to the...